is canadian blood services run by bureacratic moonbats?

i like to think of myself and most conservatives as having common sense. you know, the kind that's startling uncommon these days. here's an example.

when i turned 17, i became eligible to give blood. my mother had always given blood, and i saw it as not an option--just something i had to do. (had i been raised by a socialized daycare, would i have given blood? what do you think? but i digress.)

i gave blood more or less regularly, time and schedule permitting, until i moved to halifax in 2001.

then it happened.

i gave blood like normal, going to the clinic, sitting/laying in that dentist-chair-like chair, feeling the poke in the arm (i was always a righty, literally and figuratively...go figure), walking over to the counter to get my peach drink and cookies, and going home.

all was well.

until i got that letter in the mail.

"dear sir: (i'm paraphrasing here) when you gave blood last time, we did tests on it, as we always do. these tests came back positive for hepatitis (b or c, i can't remember). we did more accurate, more sensitive tests, and those determined that you do not, in fact, have hepatitis of any sort, nor do you have any other disease that would normally disallow you from donating blood. but since you tested positive, even though we later proved that test result to be erroneous, you may never give blood again."

i was seething.

put another way, you're saying that you proved that my blood is clean; therefore, i may never donate blood again.

apparently they are working on reversing this asshat decision, but i'm not holding my breath.

it's not like i'm trying to sink them. i think they do a valuable service--in fact, i think i'll go volunteer for them--i have a job (yes, lefties, i have a job!) that allows me days off and sometimes i have time to kill on said days off. but i'm trying to gently (???) apply pressure on them so that i, and thousands of other canadians, can give blood again.

clean blood. refused. what a country.